hey did posting this bullshit help you get through it or did you just waste everyone’s time with obvious bullshit propaganda @return2ozma@lemmy.world
It is things like this that almost makes me feel like there is a god.
But don’t worry, they’ve already spent tens of millions of dollars just to get to this point before cancelling.
Ok religious people. What other signs does God need to send?
The mistake you are making is assuming religious people are capable of logic, reasoning, or changing their minds. God himself could appear and tell them they are wrong and they wouldn’t believe it, because their existing beliefs are a forgone conclusion. They did not arrive at them by reason or logic and they will not be moved by reason or logic.
A rainbow appearing in the sky over Dublin on the day that Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage? A tornado destroying the house of Rep. Joe Harding, who authored the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill in Florida?
I don’t know how much clearer He can get!
Plague of locusts? Blood raining down? Him literally getting struck by lightening?
I would like the later. It would be hilarious.
Can lightning disable a tank? I don’t want the crews to get hurt but four or five M1 Abrams stuck in the middle of Constitution Ave would make for some fucking GREAT b-roll for the nightly news.
I’m more interested in whether it’ll disable a particular president. See the secret service try to prevent that act of god
Give him a really tall metal chair to watch it from.
Maybe somewhere high up so he can see better. The top of the Washington Monument for example…
I don’t want the crews to get hurt
🤡
Still US soldiers and I’m still a US citizen.
So?
I think they doesn’t want to have to pay for a replacement with their taxes.
Nah, building military hardware is a make-work program - basically the only way the government redistributes wealth to workers.
They’re just a moron that thinks US soldiers are good guys and that being a US citizen means they should be loyal to their soldiers.
What a lovely comment. Have a great day!
You’ll salute the troops and thank them for their service as they’re running us over with tanks.
Maybe? I kind of doubt it, though. These things are freaking built like tanks, after all.
How many people would be trying to recreate the famous tank man image from tienneman square? 🤔
Get a water balloon and fill it with skunk musk … basically skunk feces or the anal glands of a dead skunk
let it sit in the sun for an afternoon before you use it.
throw it anywhere near the parade route
the stink will last for days
What’s the skunk to water balloon ratio for this operation?
I like the way you think but am horrified by your potential skunk-harvesting techniques.
umm, yeah, I’m not sure where you get your dead skunks or where you get your ability to tolerate being near them or touching them… but that’s fucking gross and weird.
Like the other commenter said … it’s road kill. I live in northern Ontario in Canada and all our highways go through a lot of wilderness so we see a lot of animals. When someone accidentally hits a squirrel, fox, raccoon, beaver, porcupine, you see the dead animal but it usually taken aside and forgotten … people seldom see it because it happens quickly and its forgotten.
But when someone hits a skunk … it will stink up that section of highway for a week and everyone notices.
The way you wrote about it just seemed… like you had done that before lol. I could’ve written this comment, but the previous one… not so much.
Kind of … I’m Indigenous Canadian and one of the lessons my hunter/trapper father taught me was to respect all animal life, no matter what it is. He taught us that no one should kill any animal unless it was to feed ourselves or use it for our survival. You don’t just kill something for nothing.
So when I started driving on highways just over 30 years ago, I’d be a good person and clean up dead animals on the road. I thought it was disrespectful for people to just run over animals until it turned into an organic pancake. But it was constant and just about every drive I took meant I had to clean up something and most times, my passengers didn’t appreciate it. Once I picked up a skunk that had been knocked dead … hit in the head but not squished. I was careful and put it in a garbage bag and threw behind my half ton truck and drove it away to put in the woods somewhere. I stopped not far, picked up the bag and it burst … INSIDE MY TRUCK BED!!! … the skunk had ‘leaked’ or its glands had burst or let go or something and a bit of juice came out of the bag … I just about gagged and ran away. It took me a month to get rid of that smell and no one wanted to ride with me.
The smell is so strong when you are that close that it will add a stench to your clothes that will take about 20 washes to remove the scent.
Wow that’s interesting and the conclusion is so terrible! I have been close to dead skunks and had dogs sprayed by them and it was so rank at a distance. The worst story I heard (before now) was from someone who let their dog outside and the dog went and got sprayed by a skunk then came inside and jumped into the bed. That destroyed that guy for like a month. He couldn’t go to work for a while even.
The worst I ever heard was a friend of mine who lived not far from Toronto. This was way back in the 80s when living half an hour from the downtown still meant you were close to a lot of wildlife. He had a husky dog and sometimes when friends came over, the dog was too young and hyperactive to be inside with other people, he’d keep the dog in a large rear porch for a while. During one such visit, him and his friend heard the dog yelp and bark and make sounds like he were talking to someone. They thought they had another visitor. The dog went silent, then let out a yelp and howl like crazy. They ran into the back porch thinking someone did something to their dog.
They saw the skunk squeeze into a crack in the wall and then the over powering stench hit them. They couldn’t stay and ran away outside with the dog who was in pain and howling and whimpering. In the rush, they left the inside door open for an hour without thinking … it stank up the house for months.
This is an old family friend and I was a kid when we went to visit them that summer and you could still smell the lingering scent of sweet musk everywhere.
He said he soaked the dog in tomato juice and bathed it twice a week for a month before they got back to some normal.
It’s not bad if you can smell skunk in the outdoors because it quickly dissipates… but if the spray and scent get trapped inside a house or building, it takes a lot more effort to get rid of.
holy crap, yeah that is horrible!
For all we know they work in roadkill clearing, or some other form of animal controll esque job that puts you in contact with dead animals.
My cat recently got skunked in her dumb face. I promise a fresh skunk is way fucking worse than one not fresh.
Yes, it is. It’s so overwhelming, you can basically taste it in the air (source: had a dog growing up that got in a fight with a skunk at like 3am)
lol
Perhaps he could order Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport the weather.
fire everyone at NOAA
Didn’t that already happen?
Why bother when he can just sharpie it into better weather?
“Cancelled” would be great! The ultimate Fuck You from whatever God(s) exist.
But, does anyone truly believe Little Donnie Mangolini will let it go that easily??? Something he’s yearned for since Season 1??
Methinks “rescheduled” is a more likely outcome. 🤷♂️
I’m split. On one hand, thunderstorms in DC in the summer are so obvious and predictable that anyone doing any kind of organizing for an outdoor event would have considered them months in advance and would have contingencies. So “cancelled due to thunderstorms” is obviously a cover for “we’re getting too much pushbacka and don’t want to embarrass ourselves.”
Otoh, not realizing that there is a thunderstorm pretty much every single day in DC in the summer is exactly the level of competence I expect from the Trump admin.
Methinks “rescheduled” is a more likely outcome.
Trump’s flunkies had 4 years to write Project 2025, so of course that shit has been implemented at frightening precision.
But they’re incredibly bad at doing anything on short notice. Expect Four Seasons level brainfarts if they need to improvise a solution yet again.
They will weave an historically large American flag to cover the entire event.
Don’t even think that. He’d expose people to lightning before cancelling
Especially after the whole TACO thing, his ego has got to be running overdrive right now
Fair point… 🤷♂️ 🤦♀️
I don’t know. He refused to go to D-Day 50th anniversary memorial ceremony because it was raining and he didn’t want to get wet. I guess it wasn’t his ego on the line, then, and I’m sure the Secret Service is insisting on a covered viewing area, anyway, after the near-miss in Buttler, PA.
If they told him D-Day stood for Donald-Day, he’d have been there
Also held inauguration indoors due to bad weather.
The MAGA tears rained harder than the actual rain, lol
I’d hope protests would shut it down in case the Gods do nothing.
Knowing trump they’ll make up some fake “security threat” thing to reschedule as opposed to “literally whatever God(s) you believe in don’t want this to happen”
Like the fake security threat happening in my state that conveniently made everyone forget about Elon rambling about Epstein?
Will still be paid for though. 🙄
It could not happen to a bigger piece of shit.
Oh noez! /s
I’m sure it may also be due to a lack of anyone joining and the huge protests on horizon. I wonder how pissed the military would be if he does cancel.
Did they end up cancelling it?
Oh… any foot troops will be fucking thrilled! Trust me
They don’t want to work on the weekend any more than you do.
Precious few units will be given leave if it’s canceled. They’ll find something stupid for them to do.
Its time to mop the road during a storm.
Hey is that the first Infrastructure day?
Being all that they can be.
The No Kings protest map is pretty blackened out with dots, they must have told him. Republicans aren’t showing either. It will be a sad, sad North Korean parade in the rain.
Every military parade is a sad display of nonsense, the fact that anyone would think it’s a good idea is like thinking hitler had some innovative ideas about facial hair. dumb.
Honestly, the mustache is one of the least awful things about him and shouldn’t have caught on as a nazi thing.
But I don’t grow facial hair anyway and personally think neat mustaches look dumb on everyone except tom Lennon, so I don’t really know why I’m standing on a soapbox about it.
I’m pissed he ruined the Charlie Chaplin mustache, because that’s the only place mine actually grows in. I’m forever doomed to shave my upper lip because of him.
That style became popular because you could wear a gas mask with it and it wouldn’t leak.
PO-LEEEECE THAT MOO-STACHE!
I’m pretty sure Chaplin was pissed about it too.
He sure as shit was!
https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech
They were also born within a week of eachother. Hitler was a huge Chaplin fan, hence the mustache if I recall correctly.
Absolutely incredible (and hilarious) film.
It also came out in 1940, which, given how cutting the satire was, is pretty fucking ballsy.
Where do you see that red Republicans aren’t showing up?
Maga is a cult now. You have a source?
I think he means the majority of R senators who said they’re busy that day.
Of course, you can’t trust a single word from the mouths of snakes.
Can’t he just sharpie away the thunderstorm?
Maybe he can nuke it.
This is the inauguration all over again. This idiot thinks he has massive support from the people for his garish displays, until it gets close to time that will reveal how broadly hated he actually is, then either he or his team change things up to protect his fragile ego.
